COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

El nombre corresponde al apellido de Pedro Brant, patrón de pesca de la Estación de Biología Marina de la Universidad de Chile, quien participó en estudios sobre la vida marina antártica durante la Expedición Antártica Chilena de 1947. Glaciar que fluye en dirección E, hacia el paso Almirantazgo, inmediatamente al N de las punta Hamilton en el extremo SE de la isla Ross, mar de Weddell.

flowing SE into Markham Bay, James Ross Island, was surveyed by SwAE in 1902-03 and named Hobbs Gletscher, after William Herbert Hobbs (1864-1953), American geologist and glaciologist, who also wrote on early discoveries in Antarctica (e.g. Hobbs, 1939a); Professor of Geology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1906-34; author of Characteristics of existing glaciers (New York, 1911); Leader of three expeditions to Greenland, 1926-28 (Nordenskjöld, 1911b, Karte 3). Hobbs Glacier (USHO, 1943, p.264; APC, 1958, p.5; DOS 610 sheet W 64 56, 1961). Glaciar Hobbs (Argentina. MM chart 103, 1949). The glacier was resurveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in August 1953.

A glacier situated in a steep, rock-walled cirque at the NW side of Hamilton Point, and flowing SE into the S part of Markham Bay on the E coast of James Ross Island. First seen and surveyed by SwedAE, 1901-04, under Nordenskjold, who named it for Prof. William H. Hobbs (1864-1953), American geologist and glaciologist.